Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

How can you expect people to accept your theory that Genesis 14 is
historical, when you treat it as fiction yourself?

In the Hebrew Bible, almost none of the names of people had any relationship
to what they became and their actions in life. So for you to say that the
names had relationship to the type of people they were, is to treat the
account as fiction.

Even taking your assumption that BR( is a noun that has a prefixed B-, the
R( could come from four different sources:
1) RW( to moisten, as in watering.
2) R( friend, thus the name would mean Among friends.
3) R(H to feed
4) R(( to be displeasing.

So which source was it? Just from the name itself, you cannot say which
source is the source for the name, if your assumption that the name is a
noun with a prefixed B- is right. How do you know your assumption is right?

How do you expect to convince people that the story is historical when you
treat it as fiction yourself?

Karl W. Randolph.